Christopher A. Sims

Christopher A. Sims
Sims in 2011
Born
Christopher Albert Sims

(1942-10-21) October 21, 1942 (age 81)
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University (AB, PhD)
Academic career
InstitutionPrinceton University
Yale University
University of Minnesota
Harvard University
FieldMacroeconomics
Econometrics
Time series
Doctoral
advisor
Hendrik S. Houthakker
Doctoral
students
Lars Peter Hansen
Harald Uhlig[1]
ContributionsUse of vector autoregression
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2011)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
ThesisThe dynamics of productivity change: a theoretical and empirical study (1968)

Christopher Albert Sims (born October 21, 1942) is an American econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University.[2] Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011.[3] The award cited their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".[4]

  1. ^ "Advantage Financial Harald Uhlig". Archived from the original on October 1, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  2. ^ "Christopher A Sims". Thomson Reuters website. Archived from the original on October 17, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
  3. ^ "Nobel prize for economics awarded to two Americans". BBC News website. October 10, 2011. Retrieved October 10, 2011.
  4. ^ "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2011". Nobelprize.org. December 10, 2008. Retrieved October 10, 2011.

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